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Compilers, transpilers, oh my! Learn how Babel and friends do their thing—which is the right for your JavaScript build environment?

Businesses have been scaling rapidly in the cloud, driven by the pandemic and lured by the promise of agility and flexibility. But here’s a dirty little secret anyone who works in data knows. Despite the value of the cloud, tons of data hasn’t made it there. So, where is it? Spreadsheets. Still the stalwart workhorse, hero, and bane of the business world. We all love how Google revolutionized this world by bringing spreadsheets to the cloud.

If you're looking to add some spice to your web designs, you may be considering adding animation. SVG animation with CSS can be used to create rich, interactive experiences on the web. SVG is a vector graphic format that can be scaled to any size without losing quality. CSS is a style sheet language that can be used to style HTML elements. Combined, these two technologies can be used to create animations that are responsive, fluid, and resolution-independent.

Linting refers to the process of identifying potential errors in code by using a program. Initially, the lint tool, like earlier similar utilities, analyzed source code to determine which compiler optimizations could be made. In time, lint-like tools added many other types of checks and verifications. The Linting software provides developers with tools to help them write highly scalable code.

The Apache Solr cluster is available in CDP Public Cloud, using the “Data exploration and analytics” data hub template. In this article we will investigate how to connect to the Solr REST API running in the Public Cloud, and highlight the performance impact of session cookie configurations when Apache Knox Gateway is used to proxy the traffic to Solr servers. Information in this blog post can be useful for engineers developing Apache Solr client applications.

Holiday time is quickly approaching. If you own a digital business, you should prepare for the yearly spikes in activity and demand from your clients. While ten years ago that might’ve meant hiring temporary staff to help manage the holiday rush, most of today’s shopping and customer service happens online. According to the National Retail Federation of the United States, holiday sales in 2021 increased by 14.1% to a record $886.7 billion.

We discuss in detail how developers can reduce app size by compressing images, removing unused resources, and optimizing their APK and IPA files for different types of devices.

Financial services institutions are playing the long game in working toward digital transformation. Considering the rapid rate of change and innovation over just the last 10 years, leading financial organizations are realizing that digital transformation isn’t a destination. It’s a journey. While there isn’t one right way to approach digital transformation, some strategies are less effective than others.

OAuth 2.0 is becoming a popular alternative for application authentication. With Microsoft discontinuing Basic authentication and making OAuth 2.0 one of their new standards, many developers are sure to be in a situation where they need to change how they handle authentication for popular applications such as mailboxes, exchange services, and more. This article will briefly touch on OAuth 2.0, how it can be used, and an example of using it read mail from an Office 365 mailbox.

BigQuery ML reduces data to AI barrier by making it easy to manage the end-to-end lifecycle from exploration to operationalizing ML models using SQL.